CHICO — Later this month, Losang Samten, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, will make his fourth visit to Butte County to create a sand mandala. On Feb. 14, he’ll begin creating the mandala, a colorful sand ...

Sometimes his immaculate apartment looks like a big sandbox with dozens of bowls filled with colorful sands, which he collects from around the world: purple from Big Sur and Idaho, black and green ...

CHICO — Later this month, Losang Samten, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, will make his fourth visit to Butte County to create a sand mandala. On Feb. 14, he”ll begin creating the mandala, a colorful sand ...

fur. But almost no one undertakes the kind of art piece that 32-year-old Gerard Minakawa — founder of Ukao, a Santa Barbara-based bamboo furniture company — plans to execute this year: the Starry ...